A Tehran court has passed six-month prison sentences on four female bloggers, found guilty under article 500 of the Islamic criminal code. The four women were charged for articles that appeared in two online newspapers that defend women’s rights in...
Hassan Al-Fahs, Tehran bureau chief of the Dubai-based satellite TV station Al-Arabiya, has been ordered to leave the country by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. There was widespread astonishment amongst the management of Al-Arabiya as...
Seeking offence, as Christians have done in the case of Terence Koh's Jesus statue, is the tactic of the vindictive and the bullying, writes Padraig Reidy Many of us have been in the situation at some point, whether at school, on the street, or in...
Despite the dangers, Zimbabweans are still managing to spread a democratic message through the media, writes Farai Maguwu Zimbabwe has some of the harshest media laws in Africa. Currently the country has only one state-run television station and...
Magomed Yevloyev, owner of opposition Ingushetiya.ru webpage, was killed in Ingushetia yesterday soon after the police detained him in Margas airport. Yevloyev had flown in from Moscow on the same plane with the president of the region. On...
ABC News producer Asa Eslocker was charged with trespass and interference at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado on Wednesday. Eslocker, who had been working on a story about donors and lobby groups at the convention, was...
Canadian activists are the subject of a lawsuit from one of the country’s largest media organisations, writes Mordecai Briemberg In early June 2007, to mark 40 years of continuous Israeli occupation of land conquered in 1967, some people in...
New laws on digital media in Thailand may strengthen the nation’s lese-majesty laws, writes David Jardine Swingeing new controls on the use of the Internet have just been introduced in Thailand. In what is claimed to be an effort to curtail cyber...
UK political blog Harry's Place may be removed by webhost Daily.co.uk after a complaint from an academic whom it claimed had posted links to neo-Nazi articles in an online debate. The blog published a comment made by Sheffield-based UCU activist...
JS Tissainayagam, editor of Sri Lankan news website OutreachSL, was indicted on 25 August on terrorist charges, after being arrested in March. The charges relate to articles that he published in 2006 for the magazine North Eastern Monthly. The...
Today's apology to Salman Rushdie in the high court could take the chill off future defamation cases. Index on Censorship reports Salman Rushdie set a new standard for libel actions today, following former police officer Ron Evans's apology to the...
Pakistan’s media are hoping an independent judiciary will protect freedom of expression, says Haq Nawaz Khan A black era of almost nine years of military dictatorship came to an end when Pervez Musharraf finally stepped down as president of...